Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have developed a modular, high-magnification microscope attachment for cell phones. The device will enable health workers in remote, rural areas to take high-resolution images of a patient's blood cells using a cell-phone camera, and then transmit the photos to experts at medical centers. Daniel Fletcher, a professor of bioengineering at Berkeley had his students integrate a simple arrangement of lenses with the cell-phone camera and transmit magnified images to a laptop using a Bluetooth attachment to the phone. The work prompted Fletcher to file a patent through the university and try to make a practical microscope. The researchers say that the cameras in late-model phones are capable of capturing all the details that a doctor would need to identify malaria parasites and cancer cells.
The challenge was to make a low-cost, durable device with a long battery life for use in remote regions. Is to be tested in Africa this year
Funded by grants from the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society, the Blum Center for Developing Economies, Microsoft Research, Intel, and the Vodafone Americas Foundation to DAF. DNB acknowledges an NDSEG Graduate Fellowship for funding. NAS has been funded through an NSF IGERT grant to the UC Berkeley Biophysics Group.
Telepathology
Mobile Phone App. for Telepathology
http://www.technologyreview.in/communications/20433/
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi/10.1371/journal.pone.0006320 (Full article)
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have developed a modular, high-magnification microscope attachment for cell phones. The device will enable health workers in remote, rural areas to take high-resolution images of a patient's blood cells using a cell-phone camera, and then transmit the photos to experts at medical centers. Daniel Fletcher, a professor of bioengineering at Berkeley had his students integrate a simple arrangement of lenses with the cell-phone camera and transmit magnified images to a laptop using a Bluetooth attachment to the phone. The work prompted Fletcher to file a patent through the university and try to make a practical microscope. The researchers say that the cameras in late-model phones are capable of capturing all the details that a doctor would need to identify malaria parasites and cancer cells.
The challenge was to make a low-cost, durable device with a long battery life for use in remote regions. Is to be tested in Africa this year
Funded by grants from the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society, the Blum Center for Developing Economies, Microsoft Research, Intel, and the Vodafone Americas Foundation to DAF. DNB acknowledges an NDSEG Graduate Fellowship for funding. NAS has been funded through an NSF IGERT grant to the UC Berkeley Biophysics Group.
Contact Details: http://fletchlab.berkeley.edu/contact.htm
Virtual Microscopy
http://www.webmicroscope.net/demo/
http://www.webmicroscope.net/atlases/breast/brcatlas_authors.asp
Spanish/EU Telepathology Conference
https://www.staffmail.ed.ac.uk/imp/view.php?popup_view=1&index=20774&mailbox=INBOX&actionID=view_attach&id=2&mimecache=b46e1b8e4029ed0d4f976aba888bff27
Aperio/ Digital Microscopy System
http://www.aperio.com/
Scottish Digital Microscopy Project (Dr Tom Gardner)